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| -rw-r--r-- | source4/scripting/python/samba/netcmd/__init__.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/source4/scripting/python/samba/netcmd/__init__.py b/source4/scripting/python/samba/netcmd/__init__.py index 360134644b..6d6d59ac18 100644 --- a/source4/scripting/python/samba/netcmd/__init__.py +++ b/source4/scripting/python/samba/netcmd/__init__.py @@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ class Command(object): # synopsis must be defined in all subclasses in order to provide the command usage synopsis = "" + # long_description is a string describing the command in details + long_description = "" takes_args = [] takes_options = [] takes_optiongroups = { @@ -47,6 +49,8 @@ class Command(object): "credopts": options.CredentialsOptions, "versionopts": options.VersionOptions, } + # This epilog will print at the end when the user invokes the command w/ -h or --help + epilog = "" outf = sys.stdout def usage(self, *args): @@ -88,7 +92,8 @@ class Command(object): sys.exit(1) def _create_parser(self): - parser = optparse.OptionParser(self.synopsis) + parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage=self.synopsis, epilog=self.epilog, + description=self.long_description) parser.add_options(self.takes_options) optiongroups = {} for name, optiongroup in self.takes_optiongroups.iteritems(): |